Their hardware list is a little sad. I was hoping they provided some sort of thin-client which was multimedia capable, and available in the US. Small profile, fanless, with Ethernet/Wifi, capable of Audio & Video and hopefully a remote control.
I have a Hauppauge MediaMVP, and It's not very good with either the default software, or with the mvpmc open source client (Development has slowed since the last major release in 2007).
I could build something as a MythTV frontend, but once you factor in the cost of a low-profile system, IR remote, and no commercial/community support, etc. the commercial products look better & cheaper.
But unless you know the order in which they distributed the cases, your chances are the same... 1 out of the number of suitcases. It doesn't matter if you pick 'case 1' or 'case 16', your chances are the same.
Western culture doesn't seem to take the matter too seriously, but Korean and Thai cultures do.
You are clearly a Sagittarius, with the Moon rising over the plain of Mars in retrograde.
I'm not sure about you, but I know plenty of Americans who seem to take astrology and numerology a little too seriously.
I'd love to go on the show Deal or no deal (The one with the women holding the suitcases), and select my suitcases in numerical order (1, 2, 3, etc)-- because my chances are EXACTLY THE SAME as someone who selects the cases according to their own numerological theory.
Many American gamblers also tend to believe in numerology a little too much. The dice, cards, etc. are random (Unless the house or a person cheats). Sure, some people play the odds, but many people believe in some sort of mystical numerical theory.
No no no, you have it all wrong. You didn't need to go through all that effort, and all that detail.
All I meant was that I wanted to monitor a Unix box using Sar.
That should have been easy, and I guess it's my fault for not being clear. But look at all this paperwork you generated... wow you guys sure did work hard didn't you. Sorry for the misunderstanding...
I'm sure there are some people in the computer security world who you admire. So ask yourself, what would these people do if they had discovered the exploits? What would Phil Zimmermann, or DJB do? Some of these people were unhappy with the current situation, and took their own road and created some good, secure software.
Also, maybe your code isn't as good as you claim. Or maybe it mostly uses known exploits. It's time for a reality check. You should try to find some peers, and discuss it with them to determine how dangerous your product really is.
Or, Johannes Buchner is the West Germanic language equivalent of "John Smith". There is more then one person with this name, although I suspect we're with the guy who posts his Public PGP key.
from fans who want to blither endlessly about their favorite movie/comic book/Star Trek episode/vampire. That's what Wikia is for.
Why not?
Wikipedia already hosts plenty of articles on Star Wars, including many pages about characters and episodes.
Is there Wikipedia rule against writing these sorts of fluffy articles? If so, why are those rules applied against Star Trek episodes, but not against Star Wars? The reasoning and deletions seem arbitrary.
I find it ironic that contributions to technical articles about Linux, databases and system administration get deleted, but Wikipedia still has a 2000 word article about Chewbacca.
I agree that Wikipedia isn't a great place to host a list of your favorite comic book, and I'd rather that Wikipedia focus on 'important' topics.
Hello new user. Thanks for adding your contribution to Wikipedia, but you are not worthy. Here's a slap in your face. There is no point in re-adding your article, because I am watching you, my reputation is better then yours and I have much more free time on my hands then you do.
This new article doesn't meet Wikipedia's requirements for Notability. I've never heard of this topic, and I've heard of everything on the planet. Therefore, I am recommending this article for deletion, and then you'll have to redo it from scratch.
If you don't respond quickly, we'll delete the article. You DO check the deletion logs every day, don't you?
It seems like WebDAV would be a natural for this sort of thing-- Robust HTTP protocol, security over SSL, delta compression using Deltav, easy to set up with well known webservers like Apache HTTP, supported by Windows, MacOSX and Linux (Looks like a local folder, but it's on the network), etc.
But there are very few products that use WebDAV, and the idea has been around since the late 90s.
I can't tell why. Maybe something is horribly wrong with the WebDAV specification. I've tried a few implementations, but they seem immature and slow.
Not only will you and I both get an extra 250MB of space, but you will help me keep more precious photos of my children in the cloud, for FREE!
I currently run Dropbox on 3 computers-- One Ubuntu Server, one Windows Desktop and one Windows Laptop. It's nice to have the same set of files everywhere. Not only is it convenient to have the same set of files on all 3 machines, but I like the redundancy offered by the distributed storage-- It's on 3 drives here and is also hosted in the cloud.
I can take the laptop with me to show the family photos & videos to my folks. But the files are still kept safe at home and at dropbox.com.
I might also install it on another machine outside of the San Francisco quake zone, to offer one more point of redundancy.
consumers won't be able to download the operating system
What kind of open source is this if you can't download it?
It's the kind of open source where you download the source and compile it. I believe that the Chromium license allows redistribution.
Do you download binary kernels from Kernel.org, for example? No, you probably download and compile the source from kernel.org, or you wait for someone else to provide binaries for you.
A relatively dumb device that only runs a web browser to use web apps (googles or anyone else's provided their signed by google) to do their work.
It sounds like a television, with more interactivity. Hook the appliance into a screen, connect to the broadband service and you'll have a functioning computer.
If they are smaller/cheaper shops, they probably aren't playing around with heavy virtualization to begin with.
My point is, this is a great virtualization feature which is very accessible and affordable for smaller shops. It may not be as nice as some of the solutions offered by VMware, Citrix, etc. but it's not as expensive either.
Get a better UPS setup.
Even your 'better UPS setup' will fail, sometimes. I'm specifically thinking of several power outages at major datacenters in Northern California, which were backed by millions of dollars worth of redundant UPSs and generators, all N+1. It will fail, usually somewhere down the line where they didn't realize it, to the point where even big players like Netapp, rhn.redhat.com and Linden Labs had hosts go down.
This sort of feature could be very useful for those smaller shops and cheap shops who haven't yet created a dedicated Web tier, or for all those internal webservers which host the Wiki, etc.
Webservers also help with capacity. Run 4 and if 1 drops off, not a big problem. But what if half the webservers drop off because the circuit which powers that side of the cage went down? And the 'redundant' power supplies on your machines weren't really 'redundant' (Thanks Dell)?
FoxNews seems to dominate my personalized headlines at news.google.com, even when the story is highly irrelevant or a tangent to the topic on hand.
I'd love to be able to block Fox News. I'd also like to block all the Sports news that keeps creeping into my newsfeeds, despite my attempts to prevent it. I'm not interested in Sports news.
I like how the tone of the headline and article implies some heavy handed operation here. As if "blocking Google" required a massive engineering effort, or it was tricky to block Google.
In reality, this can be done with robots.txt (which Google honors). If you don't trust robots.txt, it's a few lines in a web server configuration file can make sure that all connections from Google will be blocked.
I agree with some other posters. The aggressive language indicates that something else is happening here, behind the scenes. Either that, or you have some really clueless managers at Murdoch's organizations.
In the case of Deduplication, Open Source has been lagging far behind commercial alternatives. Deduplication has been available from DataDomain, Netapp and other vendors for several years now.
DataDomains are a great alternative to tape storage. Several tapes were ruined, but I never had a problem retrieving data from a DataDomain.
With ZFS, maybe I can finally have my cheap Dedup server at home.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have any recommendations or resources on hardware? I haven't heard of many people who build a small profile multimedia thin client.
Interesting idea.
Their hardware list is a little sad. I was hoping they provided some sort of thin-client which was multimedia capable, and available in the US. Small profile, fanless, with Ethernet/Wifi, capable of Audio & Video and hopefully a remote control.
I have a Hauppauge MediaMVP, and It's not very good with either the default software, or with the mvpmc open source client (Development has slowed since the last major release in 2007).
I could build something as a MythTV frontend, but once you factor in the cost of a low-profile system, IR remote, and no commercial/community support, etc. the commercial products look better & cheaper.
But unless you know the order in which they distributed the cases, your chances are the same... 1 out of the number of suitcases. It doesn't matter if you pick 'case 1' or 'case 16', your chances are the same.
Western culture doesn't seem to take the matter too seriously, but Korean and Thai cultures do.
You are clearly a Sagittarius, with the Moon rising over the plain of Mars in retrograde.
I'm not sure about you, but I know plenty of Americans who seem to take astrology and numerology a little too seriously.
I'd love to go on the show Deal or no deal (The one with the women holding the suitcases), and select my suitcases in numerical order (1, 2, 3, etc)-- because my chances are EXACTLY THE SAME as someone who selects the cases according to their own numerological theory.
Many American gamblers also tend to believe in numerology a little too much. The dice, cards, etc. are random (Unless the house or a person cheats). Sure, some people play the odds, but many people believe in some sort of mystical numerical theory.
No no no, you have it all wrong. You didn't need to go through all that effort, and all that detail.
All I meant was that I wanted to monitor a Unix box using Sar.
That should have been easy, and I guess it's my fault for not being clear. But look at all this paperwork you generated... wow you guys sure did work hard didn't you. Sorry for the misunderstanding...
thOn one.
But I'll try to be more careful next time.
I'm sure there are some people in the computer security world who you admire. So ask yourself, what would these people do if they had discovered the exploits? What would Phil Zimmermann, or DJB do? Some of these people were unhappy with the current situation, and took their own road and created some good, secure software.
Also, maybe your code isn't as good as you claim. Or maybe it mostly uses known exploits. It's time for a reality check. You should try to find some peers, and discuss it with them to determine how dangerous your product really is.
Or, Johannes Buchner is the West Germanic language equivalent of "John Smith". There is more then one person with this name, although I suspect we're with the guy who posts his Public PGP key.
from fans who want to blither endlessly about their favorite movie/comic book/Star Trek episode/vampire. That's what Wikia is for.
Why not?
Wikipedia already hosts plenty of articles on Star Wars, including many pages about characters and episodes.
Is there Wikipedia rule against writing these sorts of fluffy articles? If so, why are those rules applied against Star Trek episodes, but not against Star Wars? The reasoning and deletions seem arbitrary.
I find it ironic that contributions to technical articles about Linux, databases and system administration get deleted, but Wikipedia still has a 2000 word article about Chewbacca.
I agree that Wikipedia isn't a great place to host a list of your favorite comic book, and I'd rather that Wikipedia focus on 'important' topics.
Balderdash (pronounced /B*ryhed734as/)
Hello new user. Thanks for adding your contribution to Wikipedia, but you are not worthy. Here's a slap in your face. There is no point in re-adding your article, because I am watching you, my reputation is better then yours and I have much more free time on my hands then you do.
This new article doesn't meet Wikipedia's requirements for Notability. I've never heard of this topic, and I've heard of everything on the planet. Therefore, I am recommending this article for deletion, and then you'll have to redo it from scratch.
If you don't respond quickly, we'll delete the article. You DO check the deletion logs every day, don't you?
Nothing
is unable to be hacked.
assuming sufficient time, effort and resources, which we don't always have.
Trouble is, almost nobody uses WebDAV.
It seems like WebDAV would be a natural for this sort of thing-- Robust HTTP protocol, security over SSL, delta compression using Deltav, easy to set up with well known webservers like Apache HTTP, supported by Windows, MacOSX and Linux (Looks like a local folder, but it's on the network), etc.
But there are very few products that use WebDAV, and the idea has been around since the late 90s.
I can't tell why. Maybe something is horribly wrong with the WebDAV specification. I've tried a few implementations, but they seem immature and slow.
No no, clearly you need to click on MY link.
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTI0MDY5MDU5
Not only will you and I both get an extra 250MB of space, but you will help me keep more precious photos of my children in the cloud, for FREE!
I currently run Dropbox on 3 computers-- One Ubuntu Server, one Windows Desktop and one Windows Laptop. It's nice to have the same set of files everywhere. Not only is it convenient to have the same set of files on all 3 machines, but I like the redundancy offered by the distributed storage-- It's on 3 drives here and is also hosted in the cloud.
I can take the laptop with me to show the family photos & videos to my folks. But the files are still kept safe at home and at dropbox.com.
I might also install it on another machine outside of the San Francisco quake zone, to offer one more point of redundancy.
consumers won't be able to download the operating system
What kind of open source is this if you can't download it?
It's the kind of open source where you download the source and compile it. I believe that the Chromium license allows redistribution.
Do you download binary kernels from Kernel.org, for example? No, you probably download and compile the source from kernel.org, or you wait for someone else to provide binaries for you.
A relatively dumb device that only runs a web browser to use web apps (googles or anyone else's provided their signed by google) to do their work.
It sounds like a television, with more interactivity. Hook the appliance into a screen, connect to the broadband service and you'll have a functioning computer.
Thanks. I knew I was going to have a typo somewhere... I'm going to go hang my head in shame now.
Clearly, it depends on who wins the American presidential election.
Some people are too stupid. But that is okay -- there's more then enough intelligence left for the rest of us ;)
If they are smaller/cheaper shops, they probably aren't playing around with heavy virtualization to begin with.
My point is, this is a great virtualization feature which is very accessible and affordable for smaller shops. It may not be as nice as some of the solutions offered by VMware, Citrix, etc. but it's not as expensive either.
Get a better UPS setup.
Even your 'better UPS setup' will fail, sometimes. I'm specifically thinking of several power outages at major datacenters in Northern California, which were backed by millions of dollars worth of redundant UPSs and generators, all N+1. It will fail, usually somewhere down the line where they didn't realize it, to the point where even big players like Netapp, rhn.redhat.com and Linden Labs had hosts go down.
Your complaint shows a lack of tact ;)
In many cases, the webserver IS the app server.
This sort of feature could be very useful for those smaller shops and cheap shops who haven't yet created a dedicated Web tier, or for all those internal webservers which host the Wiki, etc.
Webservers also help with capacity. Run 4 and if 1 drops off, not a big problem. But what if half the webservers drop off because the circuit which powers that side of the cage went down? And the 'redundant' power supplies on your machines weren't really 'redundant' (Thanks Dell)?
Not for news.google.com. Actually, I don't see any option to promote and remove sites on news.google.com , only on www.google.com .
FoxNews seems to dominate my personalized headlines at news.google.com, even when the story is highly irrelevant or a tangent to the topic on hand.
I'd love to be able to block Fox News. I'd also like to block all the Sports news that keeps creeping into my newsfeeds, despite my attempts to prevent it. I'm not interested in Sports news.
I like how the tone of the headline and article implies some heavy handed operation here. As if "blocking Google" required a massive engineering effort, or it was tricky to block Google.
In reality, this can be done with robots.txt (which Google honors). If you don't trust robots.txt, it's a few lines in a web server configuration file can make sure that all connections from Google will be blocked.
I agree with some other posters. The aggressive language indicates that something else is happening here, behind the scenes. Either that, or you have some really clueless managers at Murdoch's organizations.
In the case of Deduplication, Open Source has been lagging far behind commercial alternatives. Deduplication has been available from DataDomain, Netapp and other vendors for several years now.
DataDomains are a great alternative to tape storage. Several tapes were ruined, but I never had a problem retrieving data from a DataDomain.
With ZFS, maybe I can finally have my cheap Dedup server at home.